Archive for the “NGO” Category

John Will travel to Delhi, Davao City, and Manila in 7 days to interview families and collect B-roll. The imagery will go into a video to promote Universal Healthcare. The video will be shown at the Executive Board Meeting of the WHO and at Davos. Upon return John was not speaking in full sentences for 2 days.

UNOPS is building rural health care centers in coordination with UNICEF to support maternal and newborn health care. Distance from health centers is often cited as one of the primary reasons for low healthcare outcomes. Time to travel (often over days) to remote centers and the cost of travel is a major barrier for people who live in rural areas of developing countries. Bringing health centers closer to the populations they serve dramatically improves healthcare outcomes. John will produce stills, video and drone work for multimedia presentations.

Going to Pacific Ocean off Oregon for EDF to Promote Sustainable Fisheries

The Environmental Defense Fund has asked John to work with their partners in Oregon to promote their sustainable fisheries program. John spent a day on a the commercial fishing boat Miss May feeling queasy as he produced video, stills, and flew a DJI Inspire drone. Landing a drone on a pitching deck in 15 foot seas is pretty tricky and John was happy to report that nobody got a bad haircut. The EDF program starts with science and includes community organizing, policy making, monitoring, and growing upscale markets for the fish.

The GFF is ending preventable maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent deaths and improving the health and quality of life of women, children, and adolescents. GFF is building a new model for development financing for the Sustainable Development Goals era. John will travel to rural Tanzania to spend 4 days working in and around a GFF supported health center to help promote the GFF. Click here to read more about the program.

SDN is thrilled to present the winners of our recent Call for Entries, Celebrating the Global Community. The judges selected one first-place winner and four honorable mentions. The work submitted was outstanding and a clear demonstration of the commitment and interest in documentary photography and visual storytelling. The first place winner is John Rae from the US for his project The Positive Community, documenting people living with AIDS around the world and how HIV/AIDS, no longer a death sentence but a manageable disease with proper treatment, is still not without its struggles. The Positive Community will be featured in the upcoming issue of ZEKE magazine.

We very much want to thank the jurors for their contribution to this Call for Entries:

Newest video produced on location in Myanmar for Accion has just been released! I spent 5 hot, long days in Yangon, Myanmar with Jim Rosenberg, Action’s Chief Communications Officer, and director Lee Skaife to produce this piece on Dawn Microfinance’s efforts to promote financial inclusion for women who own small businesses. Accion is a global nonprofit committed to creating a financially inclusive world. For more than 50 years, Accion has helped tens of millions of people through its work with more than 90 partners in 40 countries. View the video here.

France’s Px3 has announced the winners of it’s 2017 contest and John has won Silver in the Annual Report category. The award was taken by photography produced in India on assignment for Accion, a Boston based NGO that promotes financial inclusion worldwide. View the gallery here.

The ICA has announced the winners of it’s 10th annual Photo Contest and John Rae has won 2nd place in the Portrait Category. In addition John has been awarded an Honorable Mention also in the Portrait Category. The winning photograph was made in Lagos, Nigeria on assignment for Accion, a Boston based NGO that promotes financial inclusion in over 40 countries with 90 partners.

The Guardian has picked up a photo story on Mobile TB clinics in Yangon, Myanmar produced by John on assignment for UNOPS. Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death for people aged 15-49 in Myanmar. The cost of reaching a hospital for diagnosis and treatment is prohibitive for many in Yangon. This program brings the hospital to the patients. To date the number of views has topped 14 Million. View the gallery here.

Px3 has announced the winners of it’s 10th annual Photo Contest and John has won Gold, Silver, and Bronze in the Annual Report category. The PX3 contest is one of the largest and most prestigious contests in Europe with tens of thousands entries from 90 countries. The Gold Medal winning series of photographs were produced in South Korea for Gener8 Maritime. The Silver Medal photos were produced on assignment for Health and Hospitals, the branch of the New York City Government that runs the public hospitals. The Bronze Medal went to a series of photographs produced on assignment for The Accion, a Boston based NGO, in Myanmar that features a series of photographs depicting the org’s efforts to promote financial inclusion around the world.